Details
A bead and raised work panel depicting a royal couple within a field of flowers and insects, with the sun above, with metal purl details, on an ivory satin ground--32 x 36cm., framed with a tortoiseshell veneer and glazed, English, mid 17th century, re-workings
See Colour Plate 2
See Colour Plate 2
Literature
For a similar example see "English and other Needlework, Tapestries and Textiles in the Irwin Untermyer Collection", Yvonne Hackenbroch, 1960, Norwich, plate 73. For an example which would appear to be taken from the same pattern reversed see "Embroidery at the Burrell Collection 1600-1700", Liz Arthur, 1995, Glasgow, plate 44, page 67